- #1 Dead Gods Realm: Morar
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WAVE gamedev team
Windows
Narrative RPG, inspired by works of H.P. Lovecraft, celtic myths, rapiers and gunpowder. World awaits the Arrival of unknown creatures. It needs a hero who would stop the menace. Or not... He may even join them. Only you shall decide who would Morar become.
Why similar: Nonlinear 12.5%, CRPG 12.4%, Interactive Fiction 12%, Text-Based 9.9%, Lore-Rich 8.9%
- #2 Villienville. Echoes of Deception
96% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: JAD Labs
Windows · Mac
A text role-playing game about the fate of a mercenary who finds himself in the strange village: Villienville. Investigate who benefits from the sudden appearance of “ghosts” and help residents protect their homes from a mysterious enemy. The main thing is not to make a mistake in your choice!
Why similar: CRPG 14.9%, Nonlinear 13.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.7%, Interactive Fiction 11.7%, Text-Based 11.5%
- #3 Dr. Kinderwood's Asylum
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Richday
Windows · Mac · Linux
Decide the fate of the son of a tailor and a witch doctor infected with an incurable disease in an interactive story with multiple endings depending on your actions.
Why similar: Nonlinear 15%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12%, Text-Based 9%
- #4 Serania - Path of the Scion
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FableTree Productions
Windows · Mac
Choose, explore, interact, fight, solve, gather, trade! Rise to rebel in this immersive text-based fantasy story that seamlessly merges the best elements of RPGs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, visual novels, and interactive fiction.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Text-Based 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 13.1%, Nonlinear 10.2%, Medieval 10.1%
- #5 The Sin Collector: Repentless
94% matchVery Positive92% of 90 reviews2021
Dev: Sylen Studio
Windows
THE SIN COLLECTOR: REPENTLESS is a game on the border of a visual novel and a classic text RPG, set in the world of The Sin Collector, a series of books written by Michał Gołkowski. Action takes place a couple of years before the events presented in the books.
Why similar: CRPG 16.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.2%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, Text-Based 10%, Visual Novel 8.6%
- #6 Taina's Cursed Legacy
94% matchPositive82% of 34 reviews2025
Dev: dark_room_game
Windows
A text-based RPG with a nonlinear story set in a free Slavic fantasy world. Shape the heroine's character through your choices and unlock multiple endings. Mystery, folklore, and relationships — your fate depends only on you.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Text-Based 12.7%, Visual Novel 10.8%, Medieval 7.1%
- #7 A Spaceship Accident
93% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Pick Your Universe
Windows
A choice-driven narrative game with RPG mechanics, filled with cosmic wonders and horror. Forge your own path across more than 50 unique endings. Barter, upgrade your character, fight, and explore alien worlds, overcoming every obstacle to find your way back to Earth… and to your daughter.
Why similar: CRPG 20.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.5%, Text-Based 11.7%, Nonlinear 9.6%
- #8 Gold & Brown
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Side Project Games
Windows
Gold & Brown is a choice-based visual novel set in the medieval era, enhanced with card mechanics. Embark on a challenging journey as a knight, shape your fate through card choices, and pursue an impossible love across multiple endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.6%, Medieval 14.1%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Interactive Fiction 11.9%, Lore-Rich 9.4%
- #9 Grave Knight
91% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2023
Dev: Dreamlight Games
Windows
Under developement, Grave Knight is an interactive RPG adventure inspired by SRD 5.1 ruleset and classical game books, where your decisions weave the fate of the characters and the story. Let the dice forge the fate of your hero and the realm by fighting the Grave knight and his horde.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Medieval 10.1%, RPG 9.8%
- #10 Legends of Savvarah: Time of Pariah
90% matchVery Positive97% of 142 reviews2024
Dev: ST Sinovar
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are Hidu, a beastman mercenary in a port city. You must survive one very bad day. How? That’s entirely up to you. There are countless ways for events to unfold — and 25 endings.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.5%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Nonlinear 15.1%, Visual Novel 8.1%, Medieval 7.9%
- #11 Royal Duality
91% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2022
Dev: Hyakuten Games
Windows
Royal Duality is an immersive dark fantasy visual novel with 15 endings, various side stories and hidden Easter Eggs all set in an engaging lore-rich world
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Immersive Sim 16.7%, Interactive Fiction 15.6%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Lore-Rich 10.8%
- #12 Robot's Fate: Alice
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Starni Games
Windows
Robot’s Fate: Alice is a text-based RPG set in the future where robots with neural network AI are integral to human life. You’re Alice - a robot who becomes self-aware, while everyone around fears rogue AI. Can you survive and reconcile humanity with robots? Your choices do matter.
Why similar: CRPG 26.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.2%, Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Text-Based 10.9%, Visual Novel 9.6%
- #13 Saga · The Circle
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: project silence
Windows · Mac
The Holy Sword has been drawn. Now gather the Knights of the Round Table to rebuild the kingdom. Explore and investigate war-torn Britain, and fight in tactical battles where stealing turns matters. In this Literary CRPG, every choice shapes your values, your allies, and the fate of Britain itself.
Why similar: CRPG 26%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 10%, Text-Based 9.5%, Lore-Rich 8.4%
- #14 Memories Of Zattera
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: YouGo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Memories of Zattera is a visual novel that merges fantasy and science fiction. Explore moral and political dilemmas from multiple viewpoints as tradition, progress and freedom collide. Will you see the world the same once all truths are revealed?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.2%, Medieval 16.6%, Interactive Fiction 15.1%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Lore-Rich 9.1%
- #15 The Secret of Darkwoods
86% matchVery Positive89% of 118 reviews2023
Dev: Rap2h
Windows · Mac · Linux
Open-world illustrated text-based RPG. Inspired by classic role-playing video games and fantasy gamebooks, the secret of darkwoods is a free game, a non-linear standalone adventure with side quests in a vast world.
Why similar: CRPG 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Text-Based 17%, RPG 11.4%, Nonlinear 10%
- #16 Dust and Salt: The Battle for Murk
87% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2018
Dev: Prime Games
Windows · Mac
The Battle for Murk is an interactive narrative set in a gritty medieval world. Play as Corporal Mandrake from the City Watch in a fantasy adventure game. Uncover the truth behind a treacherous conspiracy in a race against time to save your hometown from falling into the hands of a cruel leader.
Why similar: CRPG 20.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.4%, Text-Based 12.8%, Visual Novel 8.5%
- #17 Fate/Tiny Me
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 山岭法庭广东分庭
Windows
The Holy Grail War begins anew in a modern era. Players will select one of seven Masters, stepping into his or her perspective to be summoned as a Servant in the grand ritual. The store page has been carefully designed to be spoiler-free, so feel free to explore without worry~
Why similar: CRPG 37.5%, Text-Based 15%, Visual Novel 13%, Magic 9.2%, Multiple Endings 7.1%
- #18 Echoes in the Deep - A Fateforge Tale
85% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: LEAP Game StudiosPub: Adeliane
Windows
One last job. One final gamble. The Free City is yours to explore, but how you pull off the ultimate heist is entirely up to you. Assemble your crew, earn their trust, and make tough choices that shape your fate. But remember - every decision has consequences.
Why similar: CRPG 31.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Visual Novel 12%, RPG 6.9%, Multiple Endings 6.2%
- #19 DnD Adventure: Wizard's Choice
84% matchPositive87% of 47 reviews2022
Dev: CCSPub: Delight Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are the wizard of this interactive fantasy story! Stay alive, manage your spell power, find treasure, and smite evil. All 6 episodes are included for 20+hours of adventure.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Text-Based 13.4%, Visual Novel 9.8%, Magic 8.9%
- #20 EmyLiveShow: Dragon & Mistresses Tale
83% matchMostly Positive77% of 44 reviews2024
Dev: Team Emily
Windows · Mac
Join four hot Vtuber girls on a kinky fantasy role-playing adventure. Roll the dice and break hearts in the new EmyLiveShow hentai visual novel!
Why similar: CRPG 24.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.8%, Visual Novel 10.2%, Text-Based 9.7%
- #21 Fight in the Arena by Daniel da Silva
84% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Daniel da SilvaPub: SmokeSomeFrogs
Windows · Linux
Fight in the Arena is a text-based RPG with an in-depth turn-based combat system.
Why similar: CRPG 30.5%, Text-Based 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 10.1%, Medieval 7.8%
- #22 Your Story: Games with Death
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BoldBox
Windows
A medieval text quest in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre, where each choice could be your last. Create your story with more than 2,000 events, 200 of which will prove fatal. In a world where death plays against you, can you outsmart it and write your own story?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Text-Based 11%, Medieval 10.7%, Visual Novel 9.8%
- #23 Moonbriar
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oldblood
Windows · Mac · Linux
Delve into a dark fantasy visual novel where evil isn't always as it seems. Make your choices and grow your skills to help determine who survives the Great Culling. Featuring the voice talents of Ralph Ineson, Simon Callow, Savannah Steyn, and more.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 14.1%, Text-Based 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Medieval 10.5%, Visual Novel 9.6%
- #24 Arderico's Journey
81% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Digital Masquerade
Windows
Set off on an exciting swashbuckling quest in this classic Fantasy Choose Your Own Adventure! Meet charming characters, fight dangerous foes, and uncover a nefarious intrigue. Experience seamless and reactive storytelling. Prove your innocence, find your destiny, relish the journey!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Medieval 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Choices Matter 8.5%
- #25 Arcadie II: Cold Lands
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Arcadie & Utopie
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are the Monarch. Choose between diplomacy and tyranny. Romance allies or enemies. Your decisions define your rule and the fate of those closest to you in this character-driven interactive tale.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Text-Based 12.4%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Lore-Rich 7.5%
- #26 OTHERS
79% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2025
Dev: Sicosiber
Windows
This is a retro story game about choices and the voices in your head. Unlock new voices, new thoughts, and new endings.
Why similar: CRPG 23.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Visual Novel 11.3%, Lore-Rich 10.7%, Interactive Fiction 10.2%
- #27 The Iron and the Oath
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FFire Studio
Windows
A narrative RPG of medieval intrigue and war. As Karl von Aiden, shape your destiny through five chapters of choices that matter. Build attributes, forge alliances, navigate court politics, and face consequences across three story routes and multiple endings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Nonlinear 14.1%, Lore-Rich 10.2%, Medieval 8.6%
- #28 Tower of the Ice Lich
78% matchPositive100% of 18 reviews2025
Dev: Arcane Lorelabs
Windows · Mac
A pixelated homage to 16-bit RPGs, this former print-and-play card game has come full circle as a digital experience! Choose your champion, enter the tower, and make wise decisions on your ascent to face the Ice Lich at the top.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.5%, Text-Based 15.3%, Lore-Rich 14%, Visual Novel 11.3%
- #29 The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
78% matchVery Positive90% of 9,604 reviews2021
Dev: SeverPub: 101XP
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17%, Choices Matter 13.9%, Text-Based 11.2%, Visual Novel 10.5%
- #30 Faerie's Bargain: The Price of Business
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 18 reviews2021
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Become the greatest of the goblin merchants in this gaslamp faery-tale! Buy and sell secrets and memories! Trade in time, shadows, and stranger things!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 19.3%, Text-Based 15.6%, Magic 9.9%, RPG 9.7%
- #31 Ink and Intrigue
77% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2024
Dev: Heart's Choice
Windows · Mac · Linux
Heed magic’s call! Find love as you explore ancient mysteries, craft dragon-rune tattoos, and discover your true loyalties. What passions shape your path?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Text-Based 15%, RPG 11.3%, Lore-Rich 11.1%
- #32 The Music at the end of the World
77% match5 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Cihan Kuzu
Windows
"What music would you listen to at the end of the world?" Explore an abandoned world after the apocalypse of the final winter. Shape the story of a man whose loneliness threatens his sanity. Use violence to survive or avoid it to protect your mind. Experience the end of the world!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18%, Immersive Sim 15.1%, Interactive Fiction 15%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Text-Based 12%
- #33 Broad Daylight
76% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Vagus Truman
Windows
The day awaits. Whether it ends with you going to visit family, taking a breath in the park, or hiding inside your apartment, it all can be taken away without you having a say in the matter. Regardless of all the chances that life might provide, one truth persists: carpe diem.
Why similar: CRPG 35.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, RPG 8.9%, Choices Matter 4.9%
- #34 A Crown of Sorcery and Steel
76% matchMixed67% of 21 reviews2022
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Swing a sword, delve dungeons, and lead a resistance against the tyrannical queen of a war-torn fantasy realm. Will you unite the realm and end the queen’s reign of terror... or join her and rule by her side?
Why similar: Text-Based 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.4%, Medieval 16.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%, RPG 8.5%
- #35 History of Dragosa
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Violence in Video Games
Windows
A text-based choose your own adventure game, with multiple stories, each with several endings. Stories you create through branching narratives are kept so you can read them again or show them to friends.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Lore-Rich 10.8%, Choices Matter 9.7%
- #36 Coalescence
75% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2022
Dev: Black Banshee Studios
Windows · Mac
Coalescence is a visual novel that takes you deep within Moniker Labs to explore its secrets. Play as one of three characters, each with their own storyline and dialogue options. Form relationships with the companions you encounter and try to make it out alive!
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Immersive Sim 16.3%, Text-Based 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.7%
- #37 Schism
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Far Owl Studios
Windows
You are a double agent between a break-off religious sect and an inquisition within a holy city. Gather intelligence from both sides, solve their puzzles, navigate between dark-truths, and collect insights to write reports that give you the power to shape an inevitable conflict to come...
Why similar: Immersive Sim 17.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Text-Based 10.4%, Nonlinear 10%, Lore-Rich 9.9%
- #38 House of the Golden Mask
72% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2025
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Awaken your magic and break an ancient curse at a secret school of sorcery! What mysteries will you uncover at this crossroads between realms? A text-based fantasy novel, 280,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.5%, Text-Based 16.4%, RPG 13%, Magic 9.8%
- #39 Orientation
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pippo Studio
Windows · Mac
This is my first time studying abroad! Where am I? Passion, study, and love will happen in this vast land!? Is this the life of an international student? " Welcome to Australia!
Why similar: CRPG 27.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Immersive Sim 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Lore-Rich 9.5%
- #40 GameOver
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: Black Cat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
GameOver is a text based rpg focused mainly on m/m content with character driven plot. In it, you explore and run into inhabitants of the world. Some friendly, some foe. Inspired by other text based games and some videos.
Why similar: CRPG 25.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Lore-Rich 9.9%, Visual Novel 9.4%
- #41 Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2
74% matchVery Positive89% of 745 reviews2016
Dev: inkle Ltd
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
An epic adventure in a land of monsters, traps and magic. Journey across the deadly Shamutanti Hills and through Kharé, Cityport of Thieves. Armed with your sword and over fifty spells with weird and wonderful effects, embark on a narrative adventure of a thousand choices where every one is remembered.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 29.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.2%, RPG 10.2%, Text-Based 9.7%, Choices Matter 7.8%
- #42 Aunewyth
73% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: Captain Cool
Windows
Aunewyth is a text-based game with a focus on narration and decision making. It features a short yet versatile storyline that reveals itself according to the choices you make.
Why similar: Text-Based 22.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.2%, Choices Matter 10.6%, RPG 10.5%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%
- #43 EmyLiveShow: Dangers and Mysteries Tale - Safe Edition
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team EmilyPub: Big Way Games
Windows
Join four hot Vtuber girls on a kinky fantasy role-playing adventure. Roll the dice and break hearts in the new EmyLiveShow visual novel!
Why similar: CRPG 27.8%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Visual Novel 12.4%, Text-Based 10.6%, Magic 8%
- #44 Before They Catch Us
70% matchPositive90% of 20 reviews2025
Dev: ANTertainment
Windows · Linux
A dark text-based RPG set in a world gripped by a restless race for survival against a merciless mushroom Forest. As a prophet’s apprentice, guide your clan along the knife-edge between life and oblivion. Decipher misty visions, make critical decisions, and do whatever it takes to survive.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 13.8%, Text-Based 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Visual Novel 11.2%, Lore-Rich 9%
- #45 Scribe
71% matchPositive91% of 33 reviews2024
Dev: TalesBar
Windows
Scribe is a scribe simulator in which you can secretly shape the destinies of the inhabitants of the estate: resolve disputes, influence the course of family intrigues, decide who lives and who does not. Choose what to write in letters and whether to change their recipients!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 16.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.3%, Text-Based 13.6%, Visual Novel 10%, Choices Matter 8.1%
- #46 Kardiya: The Winds of Fate
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: InEv Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rogue-lite RPG Dicebuilding game. Roll the dice, choose your companions, organize your gear, explore all of Kardia, and die. Then try again! Try again and again. Experience a different story each time. Until you find The Winds of Fate.
Why similar: CRPG 26.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.6%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Text-Based 12%, Visual Novel 8.3%
- #47 Telvoikai
71% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Corvaena Games LLC
Windows · Mac
You've been tasked with collecting data on an alien planet. Choose between exploring the jungle tropics or navigating deep into the bioluminescent sea.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Text-Based 10.9%
- #48 独行旅者 Solitary Traveler
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 网瘾少年合作社
Windows
Is the world ravaged by demon armies, depopulated, disordered royalty, missing gods, saved or destroyed? Over to you, alien traveler ~ Meet the test of the world, start the adventure of life!
Why similar: CRPG 20.3%, Medieval 16.6%, Magic 11.8%, Interactive Fiction 9.8%, Choices Matter 8.6%
- #49 The Reeve
69% matchVery Positive86% of 50 reviews2024
Dev: Gray Muscat
Windows · Mac
You are an Administrator serving your probationary period in a medieval town. Make decisions to affect the town's reputation, order, military and supplies. Choose wisely to deal with bandits, famines, cultists and plagues. The most difficult choices will decide the fate of your town!
Why similar: Medieval 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Text-Based 10.7%, Visual Novel 8.9%
- #50 Lich Queen's Curse
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Luke McCrea
Windows
An interactive fiction role-playing game. With a non-linear story line, your choices determine how the story plays out. Recruit allies to join your party, form relationships with party members, and even find romance. Will you choose a path of light? Or a path of darkness?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Text-Based 12.6%, Lore-Rich 12.4%, Medieval 10.9%, Visual Novel 10.7%
- #51 Nighthawks
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: The Curiosity EnginePub: Wadjet Eye Games
Windows · Mac
The secret is out. Vampires have been exposed to the world… and you’re one of them. Seize the night as a modern monster, stepping out of the shadows to build a thriving nightclub empire through fear, seduction, and forbidden supernatural gifts. Your second life begins tonight...
Why similar: CRPG 24.1%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Visual Novel 9.5%, Text-Based 8.5%
- #52 Flower of Anarchy
68% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: ManInCrimson
Windows
You are the leader of a gang of slave raiders in post-apocalyptic America
Why similar: CRPG 29.2%, Interactive Fiction 19%, Immersive Sim 15.4%, Visual Novel 13.7%, RPG 8.8%
- #53 Vogvhathos
69% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: Corvaena Games LLC
Windows
As an elf in a panicked flight from home, you discover a more dangerous secret: a human claiming to be a dragon.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.4%, Interactive Fiction 16.3%, Text-Based 13.7%, Visual Novel 9.1%, Lore-Rich 8.1%
- #54 Whispers of Gold
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Falling Raven
Windows
In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.8%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Interactive Fiction 13.6%, Multiple Endings 8.8%, Choices Matter 8.7%
- #55 The Alchemist
69% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2022
Dev: Azephir Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Play the role of an apprentice alchemist on the road in a merchant caravan. During the journey you will discover many things, including love? A gay medieval fantasy visual novel.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Medieval 13.6%, Magic 10.7%, Nonlinear 10.2%
- #56 Herald of the Mists
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FromNiki
Windows
A narrative-driven RPG where every dice roll shapes your fate. Step into the role of the Queen's Herald and traverse a mist-shrouded realm to uncover the fate of her lost army. Will your choices uphold loyalty, or lead you down a path of betrayal? The secrets of the mists await.
Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 16.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, Text-Based 13.6%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Medieval 9.2%
- #57 Atlantis Academy
67% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2023
Dev: Choice of Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Can you and your friends master the ocean's magic and save your school? Dance, fight, and flirt with the other sea nymphs, selkies, and sirens!
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.9%, Text-Based 15.5%, RPG 12.7%, Magic 9.7%
- #58 THE DAY THAT WASN'T
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: MAD Tribe Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Relive the same day without remembering it. Your choices feed four inner alter egos (Shadow, Mad, Alex, and Bully) — shaping reality, glitches, and one of 16 possible endings. The day repeats. Your mind doesn’t. Or does it?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.6%, Visual Novel 14.9%, Nonlinear 14.5%, Text-Based 10.5%
- #59 Niverium
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Snowflakes
Windows
Niverium is a survival game in a harsh world where you have to take on the role of a man sent to the very bottom. You will have to do any dirty work for those who stand above you, under threat of death.
Why similar: CRPG 26.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.2%, Nonlinear 10.7%, Visual Novel 9.5%
- #60 Freedom & Glory
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pillow Interactive
Windows
A 2D narrative game where your choices change everything, interspersed with 3D naval battles full of chaos, strategy, and... thunderous cannons! ⚓💥 WISHLIST NOW!
Why similar: CRPG 23.7%, Interactive Fiction 17.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, RPG 10%, Visual Novel 9.9%